More than 50 Canadian officials will go to Brussels as delegates to the Second World Conference on Soviet Jewry Feb. 17-19, headed by David Satok, chairman of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jewry. Other leaders in the delegation are Sidney Harris, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Alan Rose, executive director of the CJC; and David Shanoff, director of the Canadian Committee for Soviet Jews.
Three members of the Canadian Parliament plan to attend. They are Serge Royal of Maisonneuve-Rosemount; Robert Kaplan of York Centre and John Roberts of Toronto-St. Pauls.
Other Canadian Jewish organizations to be represented at the Brussels conference include the Montreal Committee for Soviet Jewry; the Canadian Zionist Federation; B’nai B’rith; Hadassah WIZO; the Montreal Group of Thirty-Five; the Toronto Group of Thirty-Five; the Toronto Action Committee for Jews in the USSR; the United Organizations for Histadrut of Toronto; the Ottawa Committee for Soviet Jewry; the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry; the Warshaver-Lodzer Society of Toronto; and the Jewish communities of Hamilton, Winnipeg and Newfoundland.
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